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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9856698" data-attributes="member: 29398">If that person was being an asshat to the point of deserving exclusion, that's one thing (I did my time and then some in storefront retail and thus know all too well of what you speak).But that exclusion can be quickly and obviously traced back to the excluded person's own behavior.&nbsp; It's their own fault.Let's take this forum as an example.&nbsp; You as a mod occasionally have to punt individual people off the site due to their behavior.&nbsp; That's their fault, in the end; and everyone more or less accepts that.&nbsp; But if Morrus decided tomorrow to suspend all D&amp;D and OSR discussion in these forums and change the forum's primary focus to PbtA games and their ilk, the long-time-active D&amp;D and OSR fans here would have a legitimate case for feeling excluded; and not for anything that could be remotely considered as being their own fault.&nbsp; And yet the site would still be called ENWorld.I think that hypothetical example mirrors, if perhaps inelegantly, the 3e-to-4e changeover and how it came across to long-time D&amp;D players-DMs-fans.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 9856698, member: 29398"] If that person was being an asshat to the point of deserving exclusion, that's one thing (I did my time and then some in storefront retail and thus know all too well of what you speak). But that exclusion can be quickly and obviously traced back to the excluded person's own behavior. It's their own fault. Let's take this forum as an example. You as a mod occasionally have to punt individual people off the site due to their behavior. That's their fault, in the end; and everyone more or less accepts that. But if Morrus decided tomorrow to suspend all D&D and OSR discussion in these forums and change the forum's primary focus to PbtA games and their ilk, the long-time-active D&D and OSR fans here would have a legitimate case for feeling excluded; and not for anything that could be remotely considered as being their own fault. And yet the site would still be called ENWorld. I think that hypothetical example mirrors, if perhaps inelegantly, the 3e-to-4e changeover and how it came across to long-time D&D players-DMs-fans. [/QUOTE]

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